Hesketh Gomes v. Canute A. Brodhurst and Anderson Stanley. Canute A. Brodhurst’s Empirical Analysis
394 F.2d 465 · 1968
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Transport Workers Union (1981), 20 Cal. 3d 578 - American Motorcycle Assn. v. Superior Court (1978)
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Bielski v. Schulze · McKenna v. Austin · Goldman v. Mitchell-Fletcher Co. · Martello v. Hawley · Knell v. Feltman
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]fter extended consideration... that there is no compelling reason to defer or deny applying what we deem arule of reasoned fairness. There is no longer a legitimate place in our system, if, indeed, there ever was, for a rule of law which places the full burden of restitution upon one who is only in part responsible for a plaintiff s loss. Such a philosophy stems from a more ancient day which more easily intermingled penal and compensatory considerations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the field of settlement very much open to collusive arrangement between a plaintiff and a favored joint tortfeasor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cullen v. Riley“Uniform Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.